Police arrest second accused in Hyderabad minor rape case

BY A STAFF REPORTER: Police arrested the second accused in the minor rape case in Hyderabad. One of the accused, Saduddin Malik, was arrested yesterday. Police said all the five accused have been identified. Three of them are minors. All five are from influential political families. The minor had gone with a friend to a bar in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad on Saturday evening. At that time, the bachelor party of the grandson of the state's home minister Mohammad Mehmood Ali was going on in that bar. From there, the accused took the minor along with her to a pastry shop. He was then put inside a Mercedes car with the promise of delivering him home. She was allegedly gang-raped by five men there. DCP (west) Joel Davis said, "The victim could not reveal anything about the culprits. He has released only one name and special teams have been formed to arrest them. CCTV footage has been recovered. According to THE CCTV footage and the statement of the victim, we have identified five criminals. "